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The age crime curve is one of the most important models in the criminal justice circle. It can tell researchers a lot about age and crime. In addition, this can bring criminologists to advance their research to uncover and explain why people do the things they do. Particularly, by better understanding why some individuals have a short criminal career and why others are habitual offenders. The research that was conducted looks into our understanding of criminal behavior by discussing what the age crime curve is, explaining Wolfgang Birth Cohort study and Criminal Career Model, discussing the differences of habitual and chronic offenders, and addressing the issues revolving around predicting criminal behavior.
The age crime curve tries …show more content…
For most young people, crime was experimented with here and there. However, if you look at the chronic offender one can conclude that, that person did not phase out of committing crime. In addition, there is a difference between a career criminal and a criminal career. A kid that commits an act of vandalism by tagging up his school has a criminal career, even though this is a short criminal career. Whereas, the chronic or habitual offender is a career criminal. To better understand career criminals, one must look into the frequency of offending. The frequency of offending is the rate that active criminals commit crimes. With that being said, if a career criminal commits 40 felonies in a year and we punish him for it by placing him in prison, he cannot commit more felonies because he is incarcerated. In return, this helps protect the public from chronic offenders. Moreover, some of the crime control policies that have been implemented for the career criminal or chronic offender include preventive detention, major-offender prosecution programs, and selective incapacitation. However, nothing is easy when implementing new policies in criminal justice. This leads me to the next topic discussing the prediction …show more content…
In addition, researchers have found that correlations with drug use and crime go hand in hand. The three basic methods for predicting criminal behavior are an actuarial approach, prior history approach, and clinical approach. First, is the actuarial approach and it relies on patterns of behavior from individuals with similar characteristics. The second approach is the prior history approach. This is when someone has committed some serious crimes in his, or her past and so we predict that this behavior will continue in the future. The third approach is the clinical approach. This is when predictions about behavior are assessed and predicted by trained
The age crime curve is one of the most important models in the criminal justice circle. It can tell researchers a lot about age and crime. In addition, this can bring criminologists to advance their research to uncover and explain why people do the things they do. Particularly, by better understanding why some individuals have a short criminal career and why others are habitual offenders. The research that was conducted looks into our understanding of criminal behavior by discussing what the age crime curve is, explaining Wolfgang Birth Cohort study and Criminal Career Model, discussing the differences of habitual and chronic offenders, and addressing the issues revolving around predicting criminal behavior.
The age crime curve tries …show more content…
For most young people, crime was experimented with here and there. However, if you look at the chronic offender one can conclude that, that person did not phase out of committing crime. In addition, there is a difference between a career criminal and a criminal career. A kid that commits an act of vandalism by tagging up his school has a criminal career, even though this is a short criminal career. Whereas, the chronic or habitual offender is a career criminal. To better understand career criminals, one must look into the frequency of offending. The frequency of offending is the rate that active criminals commit crimes. With that being said, if a career criminal commits 40 felonies in a year and we punish him for it by placing him in prison, he cannot commit more felonies because he is incarcerated. In return, this helps protect the public from chronic offenders. Moreover, some of the crime control policies that have been implemented for the career criminal or chronic offender include preventive detention, major-offender prosecution programs, and selective incapacitation. However, nothing is easy when implementing new policies in criminal justice. This leads me to the next topic discussing the prediction …show more content…
In addition, researchers have found that correlations with drug use and crime go hand in hand. The three basic methods for predicting criminal behavior are an actuarial approach, prior history approach, and clinical approach. First, is the actuarial approach and it relies on patterns of behavior from individuals with similar characteristics. The second approach is the prior history approach. This is when someone has committed some serious crimes in his, or her past and so we predict that this behavior will continue in the future. The third approach is the clinical approach. This is when predictions about behavior are assessed and predicted by trained